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Medium
CVE-2015-6359
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack...
Vulnerability Description
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS 15.3(3)S0.1 on ASR devices mishandles internal tables, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or device crash) via a flood of crafted ND messages, aka Bug ID CSCup28217.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Affected Vendor
cisco
View all reports →Affected Software
ios
Vulnerable Versions:
15.2\(4\)e, 15.2\(4\)pi, 15.2\(4\)st, 15.2\(5\)st, 15.3\(3\)s0.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 15th, 2015
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.